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yo what is up guys welcome back to booted thank you all for being so patient in chat or not really patient at all I know it was kind of teasing you there for a minute but welcome back it's good to have you all here if you guys are first-timers welcome there is a video somewhere else on the channel explaining how the show works i'm not going to get too into it but this is season 2 episode 2 so we're about halfway after after today's episode we're going to be halfway through the season which is very exciting they're very short little seasons condensed into each month of the year and this particular season is focused around budget rigs so all these pcs are really trying to make do with with really the limited budget that these builders have we've got five new contestants today and we had five contestants last week as well and we did come out with a final finalist last week who was Riker now this is rhykker system he was last week's finalist the first finalist for for season two here with his trash 5,000 build now the live audience you guys voted on this system so can't can't criticize me but actually I kind of like what what good old Ryker did here he kind of knew where he stood he was very self aware of the limitations that he had with this system as you can see he used pretty much a shoebox with gaff tape for a power supply shroud but he kind of ran with it and I really like that he just kind of owned it more or less and so this is his system he's got a really nice cry rig h7 in there beautiful cpu cooler and for the amount of money he spent it actually doesn't look too bad like I said there are a couple of MacGyver moments in this system but all together I think it was one of the stronger contenders for last week's episode so congratulations Riker will be seeing you in week or and the fight round later this month as you compete against two other finalists one of which will be chosen by the end of tonight very exciting stuff ladies and gentlemen also on the agenda we do have a sponsor spot so sponsored once again by the ever amazing fantex where are you guys there you are phanteks you guys are killing it you've been killing it ever since you joined the PC I don't know the pc case market with all of your cases your cases are brilliant and you have this new power splitter I should say it's brand new but it's one of your newer items and for those of you unfamiliar the power splitter I let me go ahead and show you this this handy-dandy video that they got right here how convenient the power splitter is essentially this module where you plug one power supply in into the input and it's got to power outputs so you can actually power two systems with one power supply and not only can you power both of them simultaneously but you can of course run them independently you can see once powered on the other is powered off and vice versa so really handy little unit especially if you're gonna do a dual system chassis speaking of which they have this n through mini ex LDS which would go perfectly with this with such a device like the power splitter so these two could really make a killer combo this is a dual system chassis very awesome i actually have one of these that's been collecting dust in my hallway that I've been really slacking on doing a video on I'm actually kind of waiting until I have enough parts to do a dual system bill maybe I have a gaming system down here with the micro ATX and then maybe a streaming system up here so you could actually get a lot more performance for your hardware if you have a dedicated streaming system there's a lot of possibilities there but all together really good stuff fantex thank you again for sponsoring this little show here we do appreciate it and we'll be taking a look at some other other stuff coming out later this month and we'll circle back to that later but on to our first victim our first contestant I should say I'll try to be a little less harsh I know you guys are very sensitive this is the internet after all and some of you guys are like Callie you're pretty harsh you know don't don't point out the stick in someone's but unless you notice the toothpick that's in your I that's a famous saying I'm pretty sure that's how it goes so I'll go a little bit more easy on you guys today but this is number one Mac PC number one is Mac and I like that name that's a cool name I'll name my future son that or my future daughter she's she's up for it so you got a cooler master Silencio 352 nice little budget case I even named the FX 8320 also really good bang for the buck processor there from AMD cpu coolers a cm cooler master hyper 4 12's you've also got an asus motherboard in there eight gigs of g.skill sniper ram and r9 270 nice little budget card in there from asus nonetheless and a pretty nice power supply for a budget system the the RM the RM series from Corsairs is it's pretty pretty sweet for the money you get for the money you pay for it and you managed to get a 250 gig samsung 840 Evo in there but it doesn't look like you have a hard drive actually so that would be my first concern is if you are playing games on this which you might be if you have an hour 9270 I mean if you weren't playing games and you didn't really you weren't doing multi monitor or something like that you could probably just run off of some integrated graphics although yeah I don't know how that would work yeah scratch that so you've got a light gaming system here but I'm a little bit concerned about your storage priorities I don't know if you're going super budget which it looks like you are I would almost prefer a larger capacity hard drive over a smaller faster SSD for example however if you're just doing some really like gaming in the games that you really want to play aren't very large then hey that works for me I have no complaints there just just something to point out but what else we got here so it looks really clean from this angle cable management is on point and again going back to that power supply i mean the cables alone make it worthwhile it just looks so much cleaner here with some black flat cables that i don't know really cleans things up and you've managed to tidy them up fairly well there's not a bunch of you know wires hanging out at the frontier by your by your two fans I do also like how you have to front intake fans I think that was a wise choice even though the r9 270 is not going to get very hot and your other components could use some airflow it's never going to hurt and um let's take a look at the money shot mohnish what all right um I'm trying I'm trying not to make this about your photography skills cuz the flash right now or not even the flash but just the glare and reflection is killing me but focus on the pc cow focus on the pc uh yeah i mean this is this is looking pretty good man i also like how you three want to be quiet silent wings to fan in the back and that rear exhaust that's a really massive fan i actually just put two of them in my r9 nano built in the the node 202 and those have been doing a really good job I've actually been seeing like 34 degrees cooler temperatures on the r9 nano after installing those fans so I like how you've kind of made this a premium feel you've kind of created a premium feel here with your very budget system and can't go wrong with the hyper anything from coolermaster cooling your CPU I think that's good got a few optional shots here which were a little confusing I mean maybe you're just really proud of that power supply and I guess I can't fault eat too much for that and you're also very proud of this asus heatsink that's on your motherboard which is why you sent me an entire picture dedicated to only that but that's cool oh I almost I almost revealed your cable management shop that would be bad ah ah Mack all together pretty solid my man pretty solid not too much to complain about here I do wish however you taken that sticker off of the top of your power supply there that is a bit of an eyesore altogether not bad move on to our little badass oo oo oo bad a thaw I don't know why every Robert I come across i have to introduce the message or bad oh i don't know it's probably offensive in some way you've got a thermaltake versa h22 i'm drinking a cab by the way some cabin a solo yo okay delicious so you've got a thermaltake case which i'm not too familiar with it definitely is budget though you've got a G 32 eight solid dual-core processor in there just did a video on that stock cooler msi h81 so you're on the h81 platform you've also got eight gigs of ram and r9 270 as well so this is another similar video card except this one's from gigabyte and you've also got a one terabyte seagate barracuda so you want the more like the more common route of a budget PC where you just invest in one mechanical drive and you save up for the SSD later which you know we saw a different kind of strategy with Mac earlier but I think both can work depending on your use case needs and you got a rebel fortress in there 650 watt power supply and I know that is for sure 80 plus certified okay so looking at looking out the side profile here you've got some gold you get though go die love goat and um you know I can dig it I can actually dig it I think that I'm kind of amazed how your makeshift power supply shroud or your power supply cable shroud anyway and the the copper trim that you put on the video card their matches perfectly with the Aries dims and I think that's the native color I don't think you spray-painted those we can take a closer look at the money shot yeah that's the natural color of those dims Aries and their funky colors and you manage to match that up with the video card and and cable shroud quite nicely I don't know what exactly you use some kind of I don't know if it's wrapping paper or whatever but it looks pretty good I mean for for a homemade job for a hack job thing I mean it looks better than the trash 5000 I'm sorry Ryker but I think I think Robert though definitely has you beat in that arena at the very least so I like the copper theme it definitely adds some personality to what would otherwise be just a dime a dozen budget rig and I think that's the hardest thing about budget systems is to give your really cheapo pc a personality when you don't have much moolah to work with and you manage to do that here mostly through DIY means and I like that it's cool man it's very cool it's take another closer look at this money shot you've also put a black sticker on top of your intel stock cooler and I think that is a great idea as long as it's executed well and it looks pretty good here um seasoned ones winner the grand prize winner ha no ha no he he did the same thing but his sticker or whatever it was was all bubbly and it looked like it looked like digiorno pizza you know that had just burnt really badly right on top of his stock cooler and didn't look all that great I give him a hard time for that but you men should do a pretty good job here it is noticeable I can tell that it's clearly either a sticker construction paper or something but for the most part it looks a lot better than the than ha no so good on you mate for that one and yeah I'm very curious to know what that cable shroud here by your power supply is made of because it looks pretty solid it doesn't look too cardboard he looks very flat and and straight I'm wondering if it's just a piece of metal that you have you put some some copper ish accent on I'm very curious maybe I'll maybe I'll email you later and find out and cable management isn't horrible obviously you're working with a case that isn't exactly tailored for that but I think you could have probably routed those two SATA cables along with your front panel connectors because it looks like they're just they're going to different ways and I feel like you could have consolidated those a little bit better and there's also some cable mess that's below your hard drive in the tray I guess I can't fault you too much for that because again crappy cases man crappy cases they really do make a big difference let's go ahead and move on to PC number three Ian you are lucky that you're even on this show and I'll tell you why my friend I'll tell you why because initially I said whoever submits a portrait oriented photo will be automatically disqualified but I didn't disqualify you for some reason I was like you know what screw it bring him in lets everyone you know I'm feel like the college that I was accepted to I just I'll just take anyone at this point but luckily this was your only portrait photo but guys gonna submit your pc's to booted make sure its landscape no one wants to see this looks like it was taken on an iphone only iphone users do that dan you all also speaking of which really quick side note that i forgot to mention at the beginning of the episode is that at the end of the show tonight I will be announcing the theme for season 3 and at the right things have been going you guys can probably guess it's pretty it's fairly predictable what the theme is going to be but there are a few more details involved than what you might think so stay tuned for the end of the show I will be announcing not only the theme the pc theme but also the submission dates so if you're interested in submitting your rigs you'll know exactly which dates you can do that yeah fun fun stuff stay tuned for that all right so you've got a leader tech gamer case which I've never heard of not too surprising a core i5 4460 strong strong haswell cpu there you've also got a stock cooler b85 motherboard from gigabyte eight gigs of ram from crucial ballistix sport and r9 270 this is like the episode of the 270's the r9 270 s 3 that's 3 r-9 to 70 s in a row and I did not plan that but just I kind of randomized these these entries for today 400 watt power supply and I one terabyte seagate barracuda but aye khuda all right Ian see what you're working with here all right I said that I wasn't gonna be very harsh on today's episode so you know you got ketchup and mustard you got some ketchup and mustard in there it's just the nature of the beast dealing with a budget system and I'm not gonna I'm not going to knock you any points even though the points in the show don't matter anyway I'm gonna leave that entirely up to the audience if they want to uh you know look right past it then by all means um however the stock cooler I mean yeah the blue sticker kills it for me it always does I mean Roberto did a really nice job with that as we just saw covering it up and also the you know here's a tip for a Ian and for anyone who else who this might apply to in the future the the intel stock cooler the best thing i like to do what i like to do is actually i would flip this cooler 180 so that the the cable lead the cable would actually lead right out from the top and i wouldn't use the routing the routing uh latches around the cooler because you can still see it I mean it routes the cable but it's still visible so I would have just flipped it 180 and just tucked it underneath the power supply out of sight I mean even if it's not completely out of sight it's still right underneath the power supply so you get a nice shadow covering it you don't see it as much but you know what for this crappy little later tech gamer case that you have here your cable management is pretty on point sir i will give you points for that you you're definitely not afraid of zip ties which is really good you've done a nice job hiding them up and also keeping them kind of towards the the motherboard tray towards the side of your case and not just dangling writing the right in the center as to impede any air flow that might be coming from the front of your system now i'm not sure if you've got a front intake fan i hope so here's another look at your video card there yeah this the case is really your limiting factor here but for what you've managed to do with the case I think I'm pretty impressed by the way you need to really dust your system and your the PCB on your video card is it's pretty bad so uh that would be probably my biggest critique here uh-huh and maybe in the future get some dins with the heat spreaders on that might look cool yeah and we get get some some little heat spreader action in there it is it is quite dusty that's right all right Thank You Ian let's go ahead and move on to PC number 4 whoa it's getting hot in here jaysus and I don't turn the AC on because it's noisy for you guys I just sacrifice so much for you for all of you i know i know i'm awesome all right josh Josh back at it again with the fractal core 1000 now if this is fractal Josh who submitted his crappy budget rig and he's reppin fractal I'm gonna strangle you when I first saw this I couldn't stop laughing cuz it's his name's Josh and it's a fractal case so I instantly think fractal Joshua for those of you don't know Frank josh is a close buddy and I don't know colleague of mine in the industry who works a fractal design they make good cases like this one and he's known for being a jokester so wouldn't be surprised with was him but no it's definitely not him I can confirm email address was definitely not something that Josh would have signed up for uh but here we go we've got an AMD a10 7850 k paired with an r 7 360 00 you broke the cycle i was hoping for a 270 but you know i can only dream um but you know that's cool if your GPU ever dies you could just do some like gaining off of that APU yeah yeah not bad Hank Brad yo you've also got an a 88 x motherboard on the FM two plus socket you didn't specify how much memory you had and I didn't care to check but I'm guessing you've got 48 gigs really got eight gigs got an hour seven three sets to 60 in there I can probably guess you've got eight gigs in there you've got a cooler master TX 3 all right that's kind of a smaller cooler I think there's a 90 millimeter fan on that or an 80 millimeter fan I'm not sure and you've also got a one tear gut one terabyte a one terabyte see bait Barracuda Barracuda I don't know EVGA for 30 watt power supply all right so looking at this thing let's go ahead and take a look at the money shot yeah you know what all the cable management in these systems is pretty good today cable management is on point good job budget people and the thing about the core 1000 in cases like it and a lot of the other cases that we've seen today is you'll really have the option to route any cables behind the motherboard tray like you would with a a mid-range or high-end case so you really are limited to you know you got to be more creative and cable management really does take a bit more time and thought I kind of kind of got a plan of roadmap to how to best get rid of all these cables out of those hot spots but seems like you did a good job here got a lot of cables that are hovering up here in the five and a quarter inch base I wish that the cables on the bottom where your your i/o connectors are your front panel connectors were a bit more tight you could have maybe zip-tied those together instead of just letting the wall run freely at the floor of your case I think that would have been cool um but you know what this is a really well put together system take another look at this money shot can't really see too much here obviously you know you cables aren't the prettiest but what are you gonna do it's a budget system now this is interesting because you've got some LED action going on here but it looks like they're the light source is coming from outside of your case like the front of your heat sink is illuminated but really nothing else is so I'm guessing you just have like a purple light somewhere in your room that you're casting down on here but you wanted to throw that in as an optional picture and you've got the second one here where there's more pink or purple lighting coming from an external source outside of your case but we also see a new addition here you've revealed a front fan I think that's a 120 because that's what the the only type of fan for 1,000 supports and it has a purple led in it so you put a purple LED fan in here and I like that points I don't know why I just just like it all right I have no bias I don't like girly colors and systems pcs that's shut up oh yeah uh I don't know I kind of I don't know have like a weird I must add fetish it's not a fetish shut up stop putting words in my mouth I like it when i see budget systems that have personality I don't know what it is it's like they're people too except they're not people they're people with video cards in them uh yeah I don't know kind of like that good call on the purple fan there Josh yeah buddy alright let's go to our fifth and final contestant for today who is Lester good ol Lester that's a fun name yes sounds like a villains name like a super villain we must I don't know I couldn't do anything right now Diablo tech I already don't like this case uh Diablo tech has been known to make some crappy products but but because they're dirt cheap right and if it's what you can afford it's what you can afford however regardless of that i am not too sure why you are missing some crucial elements here on the case including a five and a quarter inch panel on the frontier and also all of your expansion slots except one so I don't know if you lost them I don't know how you'd lose them if you're not installing anything there but this just seems like an open invitation for dust in your system I don't correct me if I'm wrong guys i'm not sure but yeah you've also got an FX 4100 here as well as a gtx 460 kicking it old school alright so there is a bit of quite a bit of cable clutter i have to say your cable management is probably the weakest out of the competition here today Lester sorry about that also look at that power supply holy moly that is a sight for sore eyes murdered nurse um I do like how you have a fan right here at the front that's right next to your gtx 460 i'm sure that thing can get hot once in a while arm but yeah I mean it's not it's not horrible I wish it was a lot cleaner I wish you would take that power supply sticker off and save us all a migraine but you know I like that you have a lot of airflow in the system that's one thing I will say it does look like there's no shortage of intake uh for any of your components here and that's that's good also what's up with the what's up with the optical track what's it called like words the optical drive isnt even plugged in there's like no power there's no se de anything it's just it's just hanging in there just hanging out it's just collecting you know just not paying rent I don't know it's weird weird bra I hope I hope you know you need to plug it in I hope you don't just think like damn this optical drive doesn't work it's never worked since the day I got it I hope you know that uni actually need to power it on and plug in the data cable in order for it to do its thing just throwing it out there mr. Lester all right I think that's pretty much it for the five contestants aww rest in peace headphone users ed do you guys notice that I'm really red oh I'm super sunburnt because I was snowboarding this weekend with my wife and Paul actually from Paul's hardware and and some friends and I didn't put sunscreen on cuz I'm like no I'm Brown I'm Brown the Sun doesn't pay attention to me it doesn't care see out of that one's brown am I gonna make an attack him today but no apparently the Sun does not discriminate and I like that i have more respect for the Sun now than I ever had before only after its burned my face but sorry if I look if I'm scary right now so um guys at this point my beautiful wife is going to be posting some crap in the chat some links some very important links one of which is a photo album set of all the contestants that we've looked at here today make sure you look through all thoroughly guys pay close mind at the pros and cons of each system and then the other link that she'll be putting in chat right about now is the voting link where you guys can vote on which pc deserves to go on to the final round in week 4 which is going to be the 28th March 28th boom all right so guys think very carefully on what you who you want to see go on to the final round who deserves to go up against the trash 5,000 the trash 5,000 from good ol Riker all right this is what this is what the today's contender is currently up against all right trash five fat 50 it ain't no slouch man it ain't no slouch all right so while you guys are thinking that over considerably and carefully we're going to go ahead and take a look once again at our sponsor for today who is fantex phanteks back at it again with the evolved ATX I'm going to stop saying that one day I promise this case is absolutely phenomenal dimitri from hardware canucks good buddy of mine gave this case chassis of the year for 2015 that's when it came out and by golly do I agree with it it's just a beautiful case 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and gelin later that's not it later this month it's coming out really soon and it just shows off all of your components that much better guess what the tempered glass is also on both sides of the chassis so not only you're going to get to look at all of your goodies here your video card and motherboard and things like that but you get to see all of your cable management wrapped up nice and tidy as well so it's good motivation I think I don't I like showing off that side of your case because it motivates you to give a about that side of your system which is often overlooked and cable management says cable cable management team umizoomi yay cable management is a very rewarding activity that can bring you lots of joy and entertainment while you're doing it so guys if you're interested at any of these things go ahead and click one of the links below in the description who you also buy a shirt like this one look at it's my stay positive shirt Galloway wine glass you can buy a state well I'm sweaty I'm really sweaty is that wine no that's probably just sweat all right this is getting really disgusting go ahead and pick up a shirt if you want new shirt design coming out really soon but on that note ladies and gentlemen why don't we go ahead and take this to the voting screen dun dun dun dun dun duh ah there we go all right now I got a key like the the dramatic music it's all it's all creepy and scary now okay so um I know a lot of you guys just ruined it by looking at all the results ahead of time like I already know pc number whatever one but for those of you who have a sense of adventure and a sense of suspense and surprise thank you for not looking ahead of ahead of time and I still I'm going to try to find a different survey system that doesn't reveal the results until I want them to be revealed because I think that'll really amp things up and make things a bit more tense and exciting but for now I'll just go ahead and stay at the obvious and see and we'll see which one which of these pc's wins it's B's in number two whoa again by a landslide pc number two congratulations and number one for three and five you guys gave it your best but in the end you were booted I'm sorry I am really sorry about that so that leaves us to pc number two who is Roberto I with the copper that get it again with the copper power splash shroud whoo yeah you know what this was uh this is yeah live audience you nailed it I think this was a very deserving of the win honestly it was it was a it was a pretty close tie actually I was a pretty close game here I think it could have gone slightly different route but I'm very happy with this decision and I obviously see why you guys went with good old Robert here yeah beautiful stock cooler there buddy beautiful stock cooler we will be seeing you around nope yeah round four round for a week for up up in on two weeks and two weeks so next week we're gonna go check out the season the the week three finalists we're gonna go I don't um say anymore what am I saying I'm tired next week is our last week our last five contestants and we're gonna vote on one more finalist and then the three finalists will compete the week after that in week four you guys know how it goes you guys are familiar by now I'm sorry that you missed it you can go ahead and watch it later they will be re-uploaded whoever river and chat missed it but guess what guys season three submissions they're now open so the submission period starts now and ends March 21st you have until March 21st to submit your pc to booted now bear in mind this is the theme for season three is high-end pcs specifically rigs that are approximately fifteen hundred dollars in value or greater I repeat approximately fifteen hundred dollars in value or greater you can interpret that however you want like what the market price was at the time when you bought them or the market price what they are now but I think you guys have a pretty good idea of what high-end pcs mean now if you look in the description also no custom water cooling allowed no no custom water cooling okay that'll have its own separate season later on so if you guys are interested in what should we call it submitting your PC your high-end rig to booted for for next month season three go ahead and check the description below you'll find a link that leads you here this is a new page that I just put up and it sits on the awesomesauce network com site so don't go to the video actually privatize the video because it was causing too much confusion and there were too many annotations it was like diseased with annotations so this is a lot more simple to grasp a hold of and just breathe read the instructions carefully guys read the instructions carefully that's all I have to say if you want to submit your high-end PC to booted and all will be well I'm really looking forward to this next season because um you know I first started the show or when I first announced it everyone's like oh it's going to be a complete money contest whoever has the most money to spend on their system is clearly going to win every single season and that's why I specifically wanted different seasons with different themes to give every tier or multiple tiers of PC builders a chance to win the grand prize which is why we're doing a budget season this month for example and a mid-range season last month but you know what there is something to be said about a nice somewhat pricey system because you have a lot more wiggle room you have a lot more options when it comes to aesthetics and I think you know we all know by now you got to spend a little bit of dough if you really want your rig to pop and look pretty and all that sort of thing so I think next next season is gonna be pretty good and guys I don't know where all the good PCs are at I mean I was expecting I don't want to sound harsh on anyone's pc but I just felt like there would be better pcs this season and last season so at the rate things are going I'd say if you have like confidence in your in your high-end rig submit your PC because so far there have been few systems that have really wowed me in both of these at both of these levels the mid-range and budget and I feel like hell people have a really good shot of winning they really do especially right now and when the the show so early on and now we're getting into the dramatic music again so I'm gonna go ahead and skip over to the happy stuff so yeah guys if you even think you have a remote chance of of standing a chance in this series you should definitely go for it make your dreams come true okay okay you guys want to catch booted live airs on mondays of five-thirty p.m. pacific on the youtubes you follow me on twitter for updates i'll give you the direct links and stuff the day of the stream and remember for months that have five mondays in them there will be no show on the fifth monday lucky for us march only has four monday so there will be a show every single Monday every 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